Kentucky 7-footer Willie Cauley-Stein is making progress in his recovery from minor knee surgery last week but will not play Tuesday night at Alabama.

“I was very pleased that (Caley-Stein) was able to get in a good treadmill workout Monday,” Kentucky coach John Calipari wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “As a precaution, he stayed in Lexington and will not dress tonight.”

Cauley-Stein, a freshman from Olathe, Kan., had been bothered by an old injury and ultimately underwent a minor procedure (the school has not discussed the extent) last Thursday on the knee.

"It just happened to where, all right, let's go" get it fixed, Calipari said last week when announcing the surgery. "But it's all good. We're one short for a short while. Thank God, it was nothing major.

"There were times where he was like, 'You've got to get me out.' We had a shootaround the other day and he stopped, and I said, 'What are you doing?' Just walking around. Again, nothing major, just an old thing he never did anything about.

"We could have been, 'You're fine, put the knee sleeve on and go,' but that's not how we operate here. If I err, I'm going to err on the side of the kid. Let's just be safe."

Cauley-Stein has started five games and is averaging 7.6 points and 5.8 rebounds. He had his best game of the year (seven points, eight rebounds and four blocks) in Kentucky’s SEC-opening win at Vanderbilt on Jan. 10 but by the following week was able to play only 15 minutes in the win over Tennessee.